Egoism: The First Two Volumes 1890-1892 A review by Chip Smith Despite the marginal influence of Max Stirner, the intellectual and cultural milieu of late 19th century egoism has received little scholarly attention to date. This is a shame because the early egoists exposited a unique and radical vision of human autonomy — peppered with anarchist, […]

To the Editor of Liberty: I think there is no controversy between Mr. J. Wm. Lloyd and myself, though he regards “all acts as Egoistic,” while I use the term Egoism, like Stirner, for acts of normal self-possession and self-expression, excluding blind crazes, fanaticism, the influence of fixed ideas, hypnotism dominating the subject and rendering […]

In his book Der Einzige…, Max Stirner used Goethe’s poem “Vanitas!” as inspirtation to begin the entire book. The title of the preamble is “Ich hab’ Mein’ Sach’ auf Nichts gestellt”, which is the first line of Geothe’s poem. There have only been a small number of English translations of the preamble. H.J. […]

There are no photos of Max Stirner. It should be one of the first things you learn about him, because his likeness as rendered by Friedrich Engels many years later is the closest thing we have. All depictions of Stirner are based on that. Unfortunately people keep attributing photos of other people to Stirner. Benjamin Tucker, […]

Der Geist: The Journal of Egoism from 1845 to 1945 a review by Michael Moynihan, author of Lords of Chaos Available from Amazon.com or Underworld Amusements. “Old Mad Max is back with a vengeance! The first issue Der Geist is a tight cluster of time bombs, many of which have been quietly ticking away in forgotten corners for […]

The Union of Egoists project tries to make a distinction between Egoism that is explicitly inspired or intellectually descended from Max Stirner, and things that are merely egoistic. There are many people who one could say were egoists, and wrote things that were perfectly egoistic, but we have to draw […]

As a bibliophile who publishes books on egoism and is editor-in-chief of UnionOfEgoists.com, it should be apparent I look for and have an interest in new egoist books/booklets/etc. It was on ebay I came across the small anarchist project LCU Distro and specifically their book SAUERKRAUT for the EGO: Stirner’s Critics and Other Egoist Essays. […]

The Ferrer School, established in 1911, became an important focus of cultural and social ferment in the years preceding the First World War. In New York City this was a period of extraordinary intellectual brilliance, in which many of the seminal ideas of the twentieth-century politics and art were being developed. Visitors to the Center […]

Readers should know that John Henry Mackay single-handedly saved Max Stirner from the dustbins of history, and part of that was writing the only book-length biography of Stirner titled Max Stirner: sein Leben und sein Werk (1898, 1910, 1914). It was Hubert Kennedy who, in 2005, published the first and only translation of that biography as Max Stirner: […]